“I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.” PeopleYearsBelieveFormKnownMessagesRacismDon't BelieveDiscriminationRacistSenateColleaguesSegregation Author:John McCain
“As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.” PeopleBelieveStillsRealProblemAbleBlackPresidentWhiteIssuesImagineLike YouRacismBlack PeopleNo ProblemBetter OffReal Problems Author:Darryl Pinckney
“Your decision to place your law enforcement resources in these communities is racism, but nobody has called people out on this. The law itself is not racist. But people's decision about where we're going to place our efforts, who we're going to prosecute, who we're not going to prosecute, is racism. And nobody's calling them on it.” PeopleLawCommunityDecisionEffortCallingRacismResourcesRacistLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Carl Hart
“Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].” PeopleFeelsPersonsWarDoneSeemsHateCrimeRacismTreatsAsianWorldviewHate CrimeAversionUnfairness Author:Tao Lin
“The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative things that appeal to people, that The Arabian Nights could be used as a disguise for racism. It suited the West. You could smuggle racism into children's literature, you see. The African magician in the story of Aladdin, he's labeled explicitly as the "African Magician." He's not a character but a stereotype, and a lot of this got into nursery literature in this Oriental disguise.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCharacterStoriesUsedNightLiteratureRacismNegativeWestAppealsRacistDisguiseStereotypeMagicianNurseryChildren's LiteratureArabianParenthesesArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.” PeopleWorldWellsAliveThis WorldRacismVenues Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy
“There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.” PeopleWayWantCommunityChallengesRacismTreatsDiscriminationTreatedLgbtSexismContinuingLgbt Community Author:Hillary Clinton
“The issue of racism happens all over the world. Granted, people - especially Americans - don't know the the Canadian culture. But if you look outside this country, it's a problem all around the planet.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldLooksCountryProblemHappensCultureIssuesPlanetsRacismGranted Author:Stephan James
“I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.” PeopleTryingPersonsIndividualTypeRacismFallenClassification Author:Mike Vallely
“There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.” PeopleKnowsEndsTogetherMovingCultureThreeSocialBlackChurchWhiteTalkingGroupsDependsWorshipRacismSlaveryDiscriminationBlack And WhiteThree ThingsSocial NetworkDenominationsMoving OutDiscrimination And Racism Author:Michael Emerson
“Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.” PeopleHumansFeelingsPoliticalSportsGroupsBenefitsRacismTreatsNativeNative AmericanPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessHurtfulBruisedMascotsShort People Author:Dave Zirin
“The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.” PeopleMadeDifficultIssuesRacismPrejudiceSouthObservationSouth AfricaApartheidRacial Prejudice Author:Thabo Mbeki
“To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.” PeopleWorldWayTermCrazyProjectsRacismRacistLayman Author:Nia Long
“You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSoulBlackWhiteRacismMythStuckBlack People Author:Janis Joplin
“I don't like to just talk of Africa, and south of the Sahara in general. No, I'll talk about the Third World in general. I'll like to say this - we in the United States would never believe that another form of goverment - I don't care even if it's against the racism, etc. - it is hard to get the masses of people to believe or accept that a socialist government will relieve them of most of the problems.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveHardStatesProblemGovernmentCareFormUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesMassRacismThirdsSouthDon't CareI Don't CareEtcSocialistThird WorldSaharaSocialist Government Author:Huey Newton
“As someone who was gay bashed as a kid, I learned firsthand how a lot of people only feel good about themselves when they sense that someone or something is on a lower rung than they are. This inferiority complex drives racism and sexism as well as outdated attitudes about animals.” PeopleFeelsWellsKidsAnimalAttitudeGayRacismComplexesFeel GoodSexismInferiorityOutdatedInferiority Complex Author:Dan Mathews
“I just don't think there's that many people who think it's wrong to have control on our borders. That's not racism. It's not racism to question some of the political correctness today that's going on, to recognize that things are going as well as - for American workers, as they'd like, because people, their frustration is arising from a deep sense of unease that Washington is fiddling while their house is burning.” PeopleThinkingWellsTodayPoliticalHouseRacismWorkersBurningBordersFrustrationPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessAmerican Workers Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.” PeopleThinkingImportantSpeakChallengesJusticeWhiteRacismSickRemainsEndureLegacyOur TimeRacial Justice Author:Sally Kohn
“Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...” PeopleIfsThinkingRacismHomophobia Author:Nate Parker
“When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.” PeopleThinkingWorldHeartDifferentDarknessRacismStandingImportanceConvincedDifferent WorldsEruditionHeart Of Darkness Author:Chinua Achebe
“It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.” PeopleHumansMadeBookStoriesLastsBlackMemoriesEffortWonderfulDogTaughtRacismHollywoodTrainCloudsWoundsRidiculousAbsurdThemeBlack PeopleControversySad ThingsHollywood MoviesWonderful Experience Author:Curtis Hanson
“It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is shameful to see politicians exploiting these human weaknesses in order to gain political power. It is most depressing of all to contemplate a future in which politicians who do this will continue to have influence over people's lives.” PeopleHumansSeemsPoliticalOrderCultureInfluencePoliticianRacismWeaknessGainsWitnessPersistencePermanentOur SocietyContemplatingDepressingShamefulPolitical PowerXenophobiaPolitical CultureMost Depressing Author:Allen W. Wood
“The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down. But it has also been used in other ways. It's also been used as a way of putting a mirror up to racism.” PeopleWayHas BeensUsedRacismMirrorsInfamy Author:Randall Kennedy
“People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.” PeopleTogetherRiskCenturyTypePersonalityRacismScreamHerdsTorchesConformistJackassesPersonality TypesAgainst Racism Author:Jim Goad
“Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.” PeopleAbleCertainBlackPresidentIssuesTrumpRacismSubstancePresident ObamaTolerate Author:Allan Nairn
“In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.” PeopleIfsNeedsAmericaMovingWhiteRaceRolesColorRight NowRacismAcknowledgeNeedles Author:Jodi Picoult
“I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.” PeopleThinkingChildrenFactsProblemTrumpCallingRacismRacistPosters Author:Van Jones
“When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.” PeopleLooksKindCountrySufferingTurnsPassionEconomyRacismFortuneNot SureImmigrantsInwardSensibilitySolidarityOutrageXenophobia Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“More people are aware of the consequences of hatred. People are aware. Therefore more people are engaged in fighting ... racism and so forth.” PeopleFightingRacismConsequenceHatredEngaged Author:Elie Wiesel
“In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The inherent racism and Buddhist-phobia in the story plays into the present demonizing of Islam - and of our loss of knowledge about the great, spiritual history of the Sufis, for example, or the cultural heritage from the middle east.” PeopleTryingWarSoulPlayStoriesGovernmentSpiritualFightingLossTechnologyMiddleExampleRacismIslamFolksEastTerroristAssBuddhistCorporationsHeritageMiddle EastInherentSufiPyramidsAmerican GovernmentPhobiaCultural HeritageGreat Spiritual Author:Alexander Weinstein
“I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingReasonCausesCommonIssuesCuttingRacismBasesDiscriminationReason WhyDividesReach Out Author:Keith Ellison
“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.” PeopleWorldWarHappensThreeNamesCitiesMillionsEternalCreatingRacismProgramSlaveryPrisonSouthKillingDebtAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsThis DayBitternessDestroyingQuartersWorld War IiFlagsWorld War IThreatenedHostilityConfederateBrewingConfederate Flag Author:David Swanson
“If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.” PeopleIfsNeedsFirstsPersonsWould BeHeavenBehindsPlansColorRepublicanRacismClintonDemocratBordersAbortionAlsCompassionateShoutingFirst PersonReplacementsMedicaidWiping Out Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.” PeopleIfsMatterBlackPartyClearRepublicanRacismWelcomeAfrican AmericanEmsTolerateRepublican PartySignalsBlack Racism Author:Van Jones
“My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenStatesHumanityFightingPositionProjectsRacismRedStandingDignityBlueSpeciesUpliftingSexismHomophobiaUnderdogAnti RacismCenterpieces Author:Van Jones
“Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.” PeopleSufferingRacismAcceptable Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Diversity means, when the left teaches it, the people responsible for building America and maintaining it get the short end of the stick from now on. With this singular American culture that people came and wanted to be part of, they were proud, couldn't wait to become Americans, tears in their eyes when it happened. It was a special place. Defending it now, defending that America, defending our cultural, defending our founding, defending all of the things that made this country great is now called racism or xenophobia or hate.” PeopleMeanMadeEndsCountryEyeWantedAmericaHateCultureLeftWaitingTeachHappenedSpecialTearsBuildingProudDiversityRacismResponsibleSticksFoundingMaintainingAmerican CultureXenophobiaSpecial Places Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.” PeoplePersonsWantedForceInspireReturnRacismRaisedInspire Others Author:Kekla Magoon
“We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do in terms of fighting racism. People understand that they're vulnerable to lawsuit.” PeopleIfsBookLawFightingTermCan DoRacismVulnerableLawsuitSuing Author:Shelby Steele
“I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.” PeopleThinkingLooksTwoActionBlackSupportIssuesRacismIraqBlack PeopleLinkedChauvinism Author:Michael Yates
“I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.” PeopleYearsLittlesStillsBornWhiteFiveSawsGrewLateGrew UpRacismCrossesTownsSouthCirclesBurningErasFive YearsSquaresEchoesChamberPrivate LifeCasualNoonAlabamaFive Year Olds Author:Nate Powell
“People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.” PeopleLightOfficeRacism Author:Lil Rel Howery
“I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".” PeopleThinkingYoungRacismExpectationsUnrealistic Expectations Author:Barack Obama
“In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African American citizens) as well as a dangerous dehumanization of some people (in Palestine, Iraq, Africa or Asia) are simply unacceptable.” PeopleWayWellsDangerousCitizensRacismWestIraqAfrican AmericanTreatmentAsiaPalestineLatinoAmerican CitizensDehumanization Author:Tariq Ramadan
“One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesEarthAmericaJusticeMillionsIssuesChangedBrokenRacismPoliceCrisisCriminalsAfrican AmericanJailOther CountriesOngoingJustice SystemHispanicCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemUnarmedCustodyInstitutional Racism Author:Bernie Sanders
“First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingDifferentJusticeRacismPoliceSocial JusticeSexismHomophobia Author:Karin Slaughter
“A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism.” PeopleIgnoranceRacismElectionHopelessSexismApathyDefeated Author:Shepard Fairey
“Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're personally implicated, or have gained from systems that have oppressed and rejected others. It might require them to take a next step. It's easier to say, "I don't see race," or to dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement as structureless and theatrical than to embrace and promote its most basic premise, which is to believe that black lives have worth.” PeopleBelieveRealityBlackRacismEmbraceRejectedOppressedTheatrical Author:Emily Raboteau
“White people are so unappreciative, they don't even acknowledge and understand what it means to be white in Canada, and all the layers of privilege that come with that. So they're shocked when somebody says, 'What just happened is racist,' and they said, 'Oh no, couldn't possibly be.' They see racism as people with KKK gowns and pointy hoods with eyes cut out. And we had those too.” PeopleMeanEyeCuttingRacismAcknowledgeRacistHood Author:Constance Backhouse
“There is a certain amount of racist behaviour, a certain amount of this mindset, in the darker recesses of every community. It needs to be called what it is, which is vile and hateful. It's starting a national conversation, which is probably long overdue. Because we do, as a country, have an awkward problem with a certain amount of racism in the hearts of I believe a small number of people, but I still believe we have to chase it out.” PeopleBelieveHeartLongCountryProblemI BelieveCommunityRacismMindsetRacistAwkwardHatefulI Still Believe Author:Don Iveson